Storm rips verandah off Trangie pub

A Trangie publican says it is a miracle no one was injured when the hotel's front verandah collapsed during a freak storm.

Strong winds and rain hit the town at about 3:30pm (AEST) yesterday afternoon, bringing down the front facade of the Trangie Hotel on the Mitchell Highway.

The licensee, Shane Dolton, says he was in the bar when it hit.

"The storm was just unbelievable, within two minutes it was gone," he said.

"I was just watching trees out the front of the pub bending, swaying, shaking and snap off and all of a sudden I saw my verandah just in front of my eyes fall down in front of me and we're talking something like 20 metres or 30 metres long.

"The front facade actually fell from the top to the verandah, and then the verandah collapsed from the verandah to the ground, and it was just mayhem.

"It was like the holocaust.

"Thankfully there was no one walking on the footpath underneath, because being the heat week as we call it out here our kids get an extra week of school holidays because of the heat, and mate after three o'clock on a normal day it could have been mayhem."

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